Chapter 577 - Epilogue 3- Vincent – What It Was Like To Die (VOLU 3)
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Vincent
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Heather didn't let go of all the way back to our residence in the castle. She held onto in one way or another, even while I carried Charlotte and Tyler in my arms. She wasn't the only one that seed to be excited that I was ho. Conner and Renea were staying super close to , and Faith was clinging to my pants leg like she didn't want to fall too far behind us all and get lost.
All in all, it was a little hard for to move, but I didn't mind. I knew that they loved , and they had missed . I had missed them all too. They were my family, my whole world.
"Daddy? Are you leaving again?" Faith asked with tears swimming in her eyes the mont that we were back inside our ho and I had set the twins down.
"I don't think so, honey. There is no reason for Trinity to leave any ti soon, so I don't have to leave for a while. And I am sure that Trinity wouldn't mind if I spent so ti here with you all at ho."
"You're going to take ti off of work?" Conner was shocked to hear that. He knew that I took my job as a guard very seriously and that I hardly ever took ti off.
"Yes, I think that I will take a few days for family ti. I have missed you all so much." Even though Conner was ten years old, almost eleven really, I put my hands under his arms and held him against my chest. He had been surprised at first but when he realized what I was doing he wrapped his arms around and hugged back.
" next, Daddy, next." Renea was just waiting for her turn.
"No, . I want Daddy to hold next."
"I will give each of you a hug, don't worry." I was smiling as I put Conner back on his feet and picked up Renea. She wrapped her arms and legs around , holding as tight as she could. She was about to turn eight and was getting so big that it broke my heart.
"OK, your turn." I said after setting down Renea and picking up Faith. She did the sa as her sister had. She held onto so tight that I was actually impressed by the strength that she had inside of her.
"I love you, Daddy." Faith whispered while I held her in my arms.
"I love you too, sweetheart."
We all went about our day like it was any other normal day. I felt that was the best thing for the kids. We had dinner together. We watched a movie. I gave the twins their bath. And I read to them all in the living room until they fell asleep. All five of them were sleeping on like it was a giant puppy pile.
After detangling myself from all of them, I carried them up the stairs and to their beds, one by one. This was sothing that I think that I needed too. I needed so normalcy and calmness in my life.
The mont that Heather and I were alone in our room, the questions started.
"Vincent, please tell what happened. I know you kept it to yourself until the kids were in bed but please tell what it was that I felt that day."
"I will tell you. I will tell you everything, Heather, so please don't worry."
I took my wife by the hand and pulled her to the bed so that we could sit together. I could see the fear, the worry, the heartache, all the negative emotions that I had caused her to feel over the years. I know that she feared for with my job, but she knew that I could never give it up.
"Heather, you have no idea how happy I am to see you. I missed you, my love. I had needed to hold you in my arms." As I said those words, I pulled her against my chest and held her, tighter and more intimately than any of the other hugs that I had given earlier today.
"Vincent, I know that your job is important, and I will never tell you to quit. But I never want to feel sothing like that ever again." She was crying now. I felt the tears streaming down her cheeks and land on my shirt.
"Don't worry about that, honey. We're all immortal now." I said the comnt in a way that I hoped sounded off hand so that she wouldn't focus on it, but I wasn't that lucky. She imdiately jumped onto the topic.
"Immortal? What do you an, immortal?" She pulled away and looked at with intent eyes,
"W..well, to save my life, soone made a deal that made us all a lot harder to kill. All of the shifters, the Fae, and the magic users are now immortal. We can only die from an injury that is bad enough or possibly certain poisons or diseases but that was rare enough before this. There is no death from old age now."
"Vincent? What happened out there?" She was pleading with to tell her and to be honest with her. I couldn't lie to her, and I couldn't hide it from her. She would be heartbroken if I did.
"You know there was a war. You know that I fought in battles against the dark Fae. That part everyone knows about. Well, I stayed with Trinity and fought alongside her, and yes before you ask, she did fight on the battlefield."
"She truly is an admirable queen, isn't she?" Heather has always adored Trinity, ever since the first ti that she t her. Hell, all the way back to when I first told her about the new Luna, almost five years ago now.
"She really is." I smiled and nodded in response to her. "Well, the thing is, while on the battlefield, Trinity was looking for the dark Fae, Solanum. She was the one that was behind the entire war. When Trinity found her, she alone was able to follow her. Reece, the other guards, and I were not able to go into the dark realm, so we were left to fight on the battlefield without her."
"So how were you hurt?" She wasn't going to be deterred, even for a second.
"Queen Gloriana was in danger. I rushed in to save her, which I managed to do. However, I was bitten by a massive snake. It was venomous and large enough to kill with only it's teeth. In fact, I did actually die for a mont."
"Vincent?" She gasped and put her hand over her mouth. I could tell that she was still afraid, even though I was sitting right here in front of her.
"It's fine, Heather. Once Trinity ca back out of the dark realm, having killed Solanum by herself, she rushed to my side and prayed to the celestials for help. Apparently, they ca to see her and told her that they would help her, but they wanted to return to the human world. They couldn't do that the way that they had been, so they gave their powers to Trinity."
"They.. gave.. their.. powers.. to.. Trinity?" It took a while for her to ask that question since she stopped after each word.
"Yes, they did. That ans that Trinity is now the Moon Goddess, the Goddess of the Fae, and the Goddess of the magic users, all at once."
There was nothing but pure shock on my wife's face. I could tell that she didn't quite grasp it just yet.
"S..s…she's th..th..th..the G..G..G..Goddess?"
"Yeah, Heather. Trinity is now the Goddess, not just an incarnate that channels her, but the Goddess herself."
"Oh my Goddess." She gasped and said the habitual phrase that we all said when we were needed to exclaim sothing in fear, surprise, or any other emotion really. "Oops!" She clapped her hands over her mouth. "Uh.. uhm, sh..should I be saying that? D..do we need to stop saying that, since, you know, the Goddess is living among us?" I couldn't help but laugh softly at her worry.
"I think that we're fine, don't worry."
"Good."
She sighed in relief and hung her head for a mont. However, it was like she rembered sothing almost imdiately and fixed with a firm stare.
"U..uhm, Vincent, w..what was it like, t..t..to die?" of everything that people had asked since the night that I had been bitten, no one had asked that question.
"Well, it was all dark. There was no light, no doors, nothing. I was just floating there in an empty blackness. I felt like I was at peace, at least partly. I wasn't in pain anymore, and I knew that everything would be alright if I stayed there, but I couldn't calm down. I kept thinking to myself that I needed to get back. I kept telling myself that I needed to leave that place and get back to where I had been before. I needed to get back to the battle. I needed to get back to Trinity and Reece, to you and the kids."
"Do you think that is how it will be when we all die?" I could tell that she was afraid now, my experience hadn't been a pleasant one.
"No, I think that was unique to . I think that the celestials stuck in that place until Trinity could heal and bring back. I don't think that what I felt was anything like what other people will feel. I am sure that things are better when you aren't being kept close by the Gods."
"Yeah, maybe."
She didn't look too convinced. I was glad that was sothing that neither of us had to worry about.. Not for a really, really, really, long ti.
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